What ever happened to Ask Jeeves?

This may be a dated post because Ask Jeeves was definitely more popular about ten plus years ago with the on start of Web surfing. Ask Jeeves, or more correctly Ask.com, is a search engine where you can ask a question and the results provide answers. Basically by figuring out the key words in the question, a search is conducted.

While Ask.com is a nice search engine to use, it has definitely been overtaken by the mainstream Google.com. And now, in a manner of making arbitrary questions social-able there is now a site called lmgtfy.com, or in other words “Let me Google that for you”.com.

Basically, on this site, you post a question and instead of the results, you actually get an url address of the results. In this way, you share a search results rather than the actual information. With lmgtfy.com you can of course continue and click on the actual results–which by the way were more effective than Ask.com’s. When I asked both search engine’s about the code for a tag cloud my results from lmgtfy.com were more on target than the climate cloud results intertwined with tag clouds that I received from Ask.com.

Even our searches on the Internet have a social aspect to them.